Health & Medicine
Through the study and use of genetics, we can identify measures that could lead to the improvement of human health and wellness. These methods and procedures aim to prevent years of chronic disease and thousands of dollars in health care costs, and provide families and communities with knowledge of how to live healthier.
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Fat cat? GLP-1 weight loss drugs for animals are on the horizon
The GLP-1 boom spearheaded by Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly has already reshaped how millions of people think about obesity, ...
What is cyberchondria?
Health advice is everywhere on TikTok. And with just a few clicks, it's easy for users to fall down a ...
Anti-vaccine myths rattle health care
KFF’s latest Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust shows that larger shares of the public express uncertainty over common ...
Viewpoint: How AI supercharges conspiracy theories and oversimplifications to distort online health information
Sudipta Sengupta, Founder-CEO of The Healthy India Project, one of India's leading health fact-checking platforms that has been flagging health ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s depressingly misguided (and litigator-funded) crusade against antidepressants
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced plans to begin significantly reducing the most-used class of antidepressants in America. Under his ...
Prioritizing AI, robotics, and nuclear energy: Trump administration is guiding research funding away from independent universities to private companies
President Trump’s science adviser told lawmakers on [July 22, 2026] that the Trump administration intended to drastically overhaul the country’s ...
FDA takes up peptide therapies as hype outpaces science
A slate of popular peptide therapies has won the backing of a key advisory panel to the federal government – ...
Viewpoint: ‘Thought police in the UK?’ Conservatives lash out at government report calling anti-LGBQT+ narratives ‘false and misleading’
Anti-transgender views have been classed as “misinformation” in a government-commissioned report. The study urges the Government to use psychology to ...
Poll: Younger people more open to using genetics to increase fertility and reduce chances of inherited diseases
Our report Fertility, Embryo Research and Genome Editing: Public Attitudes in Europe explores public attitudes to fertility treatment, embryo research, genome editing, donor conception, surrogacy and ...
Viewpoint: High-dose resveratrol supplements to extend health and life? Don’t waste your money.
A quick online search for “resveratrol supplements” finds dozens produced by various companies. They contain anywhere from 50 to 500 ...
Peptides, patient autonomy, and the limits of medical freedom
John Stossel’s case for medical freedom is emotionally and philosophically powerful: if we own our bodies, why should the government ...
Trump-RFK, Jr. National Science Board firings: Accountability vs. partisan meddling
In late April, President Trump fired the National Science Board (NSB), yanking a federal science institution that had operated largely out of ...
Strawberries are berries—and 35 other surprising food and drink myths
Some ideas are repeated so often, we start believing they’re true – particularly when it comes to food. But there’s ...
We are entering a new era of personalized medicine—if you’re white
The National Institutes of Health recently announced a remarkable achievement: the world’s largest database of human genomes, a repository of ...
Viewpoint—The Strategic Litigation boom: Understanding the tightening coalition among NGOs, foundations, journalists, and tort lawyers
Ten years ago, when I started writing SlimeGate, many in the activist NGO world felt uncomfortable about getting into bed with ...
Is the longevity obsession a new form of ageism?
It wasn’t always like this. In the 1600s and 1700s, when people aged 65-plus made up just 2% of the ...
Viewpoint: Kratom ‘supplement’ crisis: DEA sits on its hands while patient addictions to this ineffective drug rise
Earlier this month, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a plan to ban a class of kratom products known as 7-OH, ...
High cholesterol? FDA approves effective oral medication
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Lipfendra (enlicitide), the first oral inhibitor of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9), ...
Embryo gene editing is on the horizon, stirring mixed emotions
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Viewpoint: A practical guide to evaluating social media wellness hype
Evaluating a health claim often comes down to a few questions that most people were never taught to ask. The ...
The Indian physician’s one-woman battle against health disinformation on Wikipedia
For over a decade, Dr. Netha Hussain has been part of the last line of defense against public health disinformation ...
Are we edging closer to precisely, and safely, editing human embryos?
On June 1, an international group of industry and academic collaborators, led by geneticist Dieter Egli at Columbia University, released a preprint ...
Rapamycin: Here’s the skinny on the anti-aging pill that increases the lifespan—of mice by 10%
The PEARL trial — published in full results in 2025 — was the most rigorous human study of low-dose rapamycin ...
More and more babies are developing uncontrollable bleeding—linked directly to vaccine deniers’ rejection of vitamin K shots
Bleeding episodes among infants of 6 months of age or younger in Sweden doubled from 2003 through 2021. This concerning ...
Dr. TikTok and male fertility: Viral claims tout GLP-1 drugs as fertility boosters. What does the science say?
The "TikTok Medical Group" has stirred the viral waters around biohacking male infertility. GLP-1 receptor agonists are proving to be ...
Viewpoint: Is bagged salad a dangerous science experiment? Challenging an online misinformation campaign
A video posted on X by @WallStreetApes shows a woman o claiming that U.S. bagged lettuce is "soaked in chlorine, ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. is setting up a panel to compensate people who claim they were injured by a COVID vaccine–no proof needed
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to make it easier for people to get compensated for ...
